It is a place where business people, entrepreneurs, community organisations, researchers, educators and students work and learn from each other, offering research and industry engagement opportunities in a technology-rich and sustainable environment. 

The building has been designed through an extensive process to meet the highest environmental and sustainability standards, achieving LEED Gold certification.  

Highly adaptable spaces are organised around a grand three-storey room that has an outlook toward the centre of campus.   A full-height green wall and floating staircase dominate the area, giving focus to the experience for visitors and occupants alike and providing occupants with a strong connection to their tropical setting.

The folded building form explores the idea that through people and process, the prosaic and simple can be readily transformed into something unique and beautiful.  The result is a playful dynamic building envelope that gives the Ideas Lab a presence in the landscape while at the same time moderating heat and glare and maximising natural light to the workplaces within.

At night the building is transformed by projected moving images and colour to become a focal point in the landscape that can be easily be seen from the highway. 

The Ideas Lab is an exemplar case, setting a new benchmark for contemporary and sustainable design.